I started to play around with NixOS two days ago and I’m very impressed how easy everything is and how fast and stable the system is. My only concern is that it capsulates all the “real” setup steps and I fear that I’ll end up with less controll over my system because I don’t really know whats going on under the hood. Please don’t be mad at me, I just want to have other peoples opinion on this.
The coolest thing would be if there was some kind of journal where I can see, what exactly happened based on my nix files
Don’t fret. We’ve collectively been abstracting everything away for the last 50 years. The same argument could be made for assembler or C code or Python, etc. We benefit from the abstractions and just focus our effort to improve the next one.